The good news of the Gospel is that we have a remedy for fear-courageous love ( 1 John 4:18). It’s easy for fear to take hold and control our thoughts, emotions, and actions. As I write this, we’re experiencing extremely anxious and unsetting times as a deadly virus spreads throughout the world. As outlined in 1 Corinthians, we’re called to love everyone God brings into our lives. Although as Christians, we don’t stop there. We can begin by putting these into practice with those closest to us, our family. In both situations, love empowers us to respond beyond our feelings so we may impart life to others. Sometimes we will need to do things that are out of our comfort zone sometimes we will need to not do things that feel natural to us. He empowers us with a framework to respond to any situation in love. In these verses, Paul instructs us about what we need to hold close and what we need to let go. He lists eight things love embraces and eight things love resists. In this timeless passage on love, Paul uses poetic symmetry to deepen his point. While most of us are fairly familiar with 1 Corinthians 13, slowing down to read it empowers us to enjoy subtle beauties we may otherwise miss. Paul tells us that love isn’t merely a feeling but a way of relating to others. Biblically, love has a much deeper and richer meaning it transcends a feeling or emotion. It’s most often understood as an intense feeling of deep affection. As followers of Christ, love is our trademark. Love is the common denominator in how we relate-to God, to others, or to ourselves.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
It does not insist on its own way it is not irritable or resentful it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 1 Corinthians 13:4–8a (ESV) Love is patient and kind love does not envy or boast it is not arrogant or rude.
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